Umeå University awards Bernt Eric Uhlin with Medal of Honour

[2015-06-17] The University Board decided on June 4th to honour Bernt Eric Uhlin with Umeå University's Medal of Honour, the highest distinction that is awarded to an individual at the university. Bernt Eric Uhlin is being honoured for his outstanding contributions to the university and the development of the strong research environment infection biology and molecular infection medicine.

On Bernt Eric Uhlin's initiative two research centres have been established at Umeå University: Umeå Centre for Microbial Research - UCMR and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden - MIMS.

His diligent directorship and his commitment to the recruitment and guidance of talented young scientists have been critical to the success of the two centres and to the establishment of molecular infection research at Umeå University.

Despite his management duties, Bernt Eric Uhlin has maintained an active research programme and earned an international reputation as an expert in the field of virulence factors that control bacteria-host interactions in pathogenic Enterobacteria.

Umeå University's Vice-chancellor Lena Gustafsson, will present the Medal to the awardee on the Annual Cerelebration on October 17th.

Eric K Fernström Prize 2015 to Richard Lundmark

Richard Lundmark, PI at MIMS and associate professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, will receive Umeå University's Eric K. Fernström prize 2015 for young and promising scientists. The prize committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, decided to award Richard Lundmark for his exeptional scientific carreer after his disputation. In recent years he published several important papers in the research area of membrane trafficking which attracted international recognition. Richard Lundmark is head of the Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU) and Lecturer at the department of Integrative Medical Biology.

The prize amount is 100.000 SEK and Richard will receive the prize at the during the Annual Celebration Ceremony at Umeå University. According to the founder of the prize, the ship-owner Eric K. Fernström, the Fernström foundation awards every year six young researchers at Sweden's six university medical faculties.

It is the fifth time that the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University decided to award a MIMS young group leader with the Fernström Prize. Earlier awardees since MIMS was initiated are Andrei Chabes, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jörgen Johansson, and Niklas Arnberg.

Andrea Puhar new MIMS Group Leader

[2015-05-15] MIMS welcomes Andrea Puhar who is establishing her research group from May 2015 at the Department of Molecular Biology.Andrea has during the previous years performed postdoctoral research at Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Before her arrival in Umeå, she spent some months as a visiting scientist in the Department of Gastroenterology, RWTH University, Aachen, Germany.

Within the next months Andrea Puhar will recruit PhD students, master students and postdocs to her new lab. Interested persons are highly welcome to send a letter of interest with CV and motivation letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.